Re: [DL] Bigger dice or more of them?

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> So, I'm hoping those of you more familiar with the system, or those
> who've done some conversion work yourselves, can help me out here. Is
> lots of smaller dice better, or fewer big dice? The number of dice only
> matter for trait checks, so for skills it would seem that bigger dice
> would be better. What's the ratio of trait-to-skill checks, generally
> speaking?

http://www.darious.com/deadlands/reference/Diceodds.html

I think it's that you need two steps higher to beat more dice.  Of course,
that was a long time ago and I haven't a head for numbers, especially
tonight.

Nick Zachariasen